S.F. Weekly’s Snitch blog recaps the year in pot

 Cultivation, Marijuana News, Media
Dec 132010
 

How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges — and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There’s still time yet before 2011 — who knows what the next few weeks will bring?. In any event, here’s your recap of the Year in Pot (to date), courtesy of Chris Roberts at S.F. Weekly’s Snitch blog. Regulated Edibles Means Hidden Cookies The year opened with ambitious rule changes from [...]

General Cannabis takes WeedMaps public

 Business, Marijuana News, Media, Medical marijuana
Dec 052010
 

This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been on a tear, but it’s nothing compared to the recent highs achieved by an obscure stock known as General Cannabis (ticker symbol: CANA). Since word leaked out in September that the company was acquiring the popular Yelp-for-pot site WeedMaps.com, the value of its shares has skyrocketed 300 percent. Last week General Cannabis officially finalized the purchase, Josh Harkinson reports in Mother Jones, making WeedMaps the latest and most brazen marijuana business to go public. Founded in 2008 by a University of California computer science graduate, Justin [...]

Editorial: Corte Madera rushed medipot moratorium

 Dispensaries, Media, Opinion, Ordinances
Nov 272010
 

Depending on how you look at it, the Corte Madera Town Council has either taken its sweet time or hurried its approval of an emergency moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries. Several Marin towns approved such moratoriums or bans years ago after California voters approved the 1996 Compassionate Use Act, the Marin Independent Journal writes in this editorial. Last week, Corte Madera joined them. The council emerged from a closed-door meeting with its town attorney and passed an urgency ordinance that creates a 45-day ban on new medical pot shops. The Fairfax Town Council recently voted [...]

L.A. Times profiles mystery Humboldt blogger

 Marijuana News, Media
Nov 172010
 

Reporting from Garberville — A woman drove into the Humboldt County hills to earn some money trimming the leaves from marijuana buds. At a cabin, the grower who’d hired her set out mounds of pot. The woman and a friend chatted as they trimmed. Suddenly, an armed man barged in. He accused the grower of stealing his pot. The invader grabbed some of the grower’s cash, handed it to the women and ordered them out. They careened down the road in their truck to the foot of the mountain. What should they do? “We should [...]

Harris still leads Cooley for attorney general

 Marijuana News, Media
Nov 172010
 

Bud’s note: While the stoner vote was split over Prop. 19, Cooley was dubbed Public Enemy No. 1 for his aggressive stance on dispensaries in L.A. Should Harris eke out a win, the stoner vote could well have been the deciding factor. Something to think about, anyway … ============= San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris’ lead in the race for California attorney general continued to grow Tuesday, making a possible comeback appear increasingly difficult for her rival, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. Harris, the Democratic nominee, led by 31,000 votes Tuesday evening, with [...]

S.F. fundraiser runs into High Times trademark

 Advocates, Business, Marijuana News, Media
Nov 162010
 

Kevin Reed can’t catch a break. Reed, the CEO of medical cannabis delivery service The Green Cross, has for the past three years hosted an annual pot party/fundraiser called the SF Cannabis Cup (re-dubbed the “Cannabis Competition” for this year’s fete due to copyright concerns), in which a select group of judges — all medical cannabis patients — get completely ripped as they sample roughly 60 of the best grams of cannabis, concentrates, and edibles Bay Area dispensaries have to offer. The fourth annual iteration is this Sunday, Nov. 14 — but after a few [...]

Analysis: Prop. 19 wasn’t supported by minorities

 Legalization, Marijuana News, Media
Nov 122010
 

Who killed Proposition 19? It’s a question that cannabis legalization proponents will be asking themselves for weeks to come, Robert Gammon observes in the East Bay Express. Was it the Tea Partiers who came out in droves this year? Was it apathetic young voters who stayed away from the polls? Or was it the marijuana-producing counties of Northern California, which feared losing market share of their main cash crop? Each of those story lines have already received plenty of attention. But a closer look at election results and exit polling data points to a different [...]

Time columnist makes doctor’s case for legal cannabis

 Health and science, Legalization, Media, Opinion
Nov 102010
 

Dr. Scott Haig is an assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His Doctor’s View column on cannabis appears in Time magazine: =============== We don’t really know how many people smoke it. Some sources say 10 million Americans, others say 35 million. But a lot of people smoke pot and they don’t seem very sick. Marijuana just won’t go away. Everybody talks about it—many quite fondly. About everyone I know under 55 has smoked it. And they’re all right. A few have that pothead “oh wow” personality, but [...]

Filmmaker points lens at Humboldt’s pot culture

 Cultivation, Marijuana News, Media
Nov 092010
 

Five young trimmers sit out on the deck, surrounded by buds, sunlight and the open air of Southern Humboldt. The scene is set nicely for local filmmaker Mikal Jakubal, who is intent on capturing a slice of life within Humboldt County’s marijuana industry, Donna Tam reports in the Eureka Times-Standard. One trimmer, a seasoned hand who has a sunny disposition and no shoes on, talks as her fingers nimbly pluck buds and trim them with Fiskars, a brand of scissors. She said she isn’t a pot smoker and had no position on the recently failed [...]

Latest Field Poll shows Prop. 19 down 7 points

 Legalization, Marijuana News, Media
Oct 312010
 

Days before a landmark ballot decision on marijuana in the Golden State, California voters appear to be changing their minds about legalizing pot for recreational use. A new California Field Poll shows Proposition 19 is losing 49 percent to 42 percent, less than a month after a September survey showed it winning by the exact margin. The reversal in attitudes comes after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his opposition to the measure and said the Justice Department would “vigorously enforce” federal marijuana laws in California if voters approved it. Proposition 19 would make California [...]

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